KR19980085115A - Operation course control method of refrigerator and its control device - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a control method and a control apparatus for a driving course of a refrigerator, wherein the operation of the refrigerator is reserved and the operation of the refrigerator proceeds in a continuous operation in a preset order. The method of the present invention provides a method for controlling a driving course of a refrigerator that performs a plurality of different driving functions, the method comprising: a first step of sequentially reserving a desired driving function among the plurality of different driving functions; And a second step of sequentially executing the operation functions of the refrigerator in the order set in step 1, wherein the apparatus of the present invention comprises a control processing means for controlling the refrigerator with a predetermined microcomputer. And an operation panel unit for inputting a user's selection to the control processing unit, and an operation panel unit having a display unit for displaying a control state by the control processing unit. In the apparatus, the operation panel portion is provided by the user in the plurality of different operation functions. It is characterized in that it is provided with a reservation setting means for setting a desired driving function to operate the reserved driving function sequentially.

Description

Operation course control method of refrigerator and its control device

The present invention relates to a method of controlling a driving course of a refrigerator and a control device thereof, and more particularly, to a method of controlling a driving course of a refrigerator, which improves convenience of a refrigerator by sequentially operating the refrigerator in a continuous operation; It relates to the control device.

Looking at the recent refrigerator, the temperature of the refrigerating compartment and the freezing compartment is adjusted according to the input conditions input through the operation panel provided on the front of the refrigerator door, the refrigerator operating time and the like. That is, when the user selects various buttons (or keys) provided on the operation panel of the refrigerator shown as an example in FIG. 1, the function of the refrigerator according to the selected button is performed by the refrigerator control processing apparatus. For example, when the freezer compartment temperature control button 1 of the operation panel 100 shown in FIG. 1 is selected, a control processing apparatus (not shown) of a refrigerator including a microcomputer or the like selects the temperature control button 1. By recognizing the freezer temperature is adjusted according to the number of times of the temperature control button (1), the adjustment state is the temperature of the freezer is adjusted by the weak-medium-medium-middle-lower whenever the button (1) is pressed. . Here, even when the refrigerator compartment temperature control button 2 is selected, the temperature of the refrigerator compartment is adjusted similarly to the case where the freezer compartment temperature control button 1 is selected. In addition, when the power refrigeration button 4 or the power refrigeration button 3 of the operation panel 100 is selected, the refrigerator's control processing apparatus allows the refrigerator to freeze or freeze food in the refrigerating compartment or the freezing compartment at a high speed to a certain temperature. The components, such as the compressor and the fan, are continuously driven. The operation panel 100 is provided with a display alarm unit 20 for displaying each control state when the respective selection buttons are selected or alarming the abnormal operation of the refrigerator, the display alarm unit 20 has a freezer compartment temperature control button (1). Each time you press), the freezer temperature display unit 21 displays the state, the refrigerator compartment temperature display unit 22 displays the state every time the refrigerator is pressed, the power freezer button 3, or the power refrigerator button. The power refrigeration display unit 23 and the power refrigeration display unit 24 which display the state when pressing (4), respectively are provided. In addition, the operation panel 100 is provided with an alarm button 5 for causing an alarm to sound through the alarm unit 25 of the display alarm unit 20 when the refrigerator door is not properly closed. Reference numeral 27 is a deodorization display unit displayed during the deodorizing function of the refrigerator, 28 is a high humidity refrigeration display unit displayed during high-humidity refrigeration, and 29 is a rotation wing operation display unit displayed during the rotation blade operation.

By the way, the conventional refrigerator having an operation panel for operating the operation of the refrigerator from the outside of the refrigerator as described above can simply operate the current state, so that the refrigerator becomes a predetermined operation after a predetermined time from the present time. There was a lot of inconvenience in using because there is no reservation driving function.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and provides a driving course control method and a control apparatus of the refrigerator to improve the convenience of the refrigerator by sequentially operating the refrigerator in a continuous operation. There is a purpose.

1 is a configuration diagram schematically showing one form of an operation panel provided on a front portion of a general refrigerator;

2 is a configuration diagram showing one form of an operation panel of a driving course control apparatus for a refrigerator according to the present invention;

3 is a block diagram showing the main block configuration of the driving course control apparatus of the refrigerator according to the present invention;

4 is a flowchart of a driving course control method of a refrigerator according to the present invention;

Fig. 5 is a memory map showing one form of a reservation operation function and an operation time stored in an internal memory of a microcomputer provided in the control processing apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a mode in which a driving function is performed in order of a reserved driving mode according to the present invention; FIG.

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40: microcomputer 50: reserved operation setting key

60: operation time setting key 70: time display

Operation course control method of the refrigerator according to the present invention to achieve the above object,

In the driving course control method of the refrigerator performing a plurality of different operation functions,

A first step of sequentially setting a desired driving function among the plurality of different driving functions, and a second step of sequentially executing the driving functions of the refrigerator in the order set in the first step. It has that feature.

And, the driving course control apparatus of the refrigerator to achieve the method of the present invention,

A control panel means for controlling a refrigerator having a predetermined microcomputer, an operation panel portion for inputting a user's options to the control processing means, and an operation panel portion having a display portion for displaying a control state by the control processing means; In the driving course control apparatus of the refrigerator to perform a number of different operation functions,

The operation panel unit,

It is characterized in that it is provided with reservation setting means for allowing a user to reserve a desired driving function among the plurality of different driving functions so that the reserved driving function is sequentially operated.

In a preferred embodiment of the control device of the present invention, the reservation setting means comprises: setting input means for setting a reservation, driving time input means for setting an operation time of a corresponding operation function reserved by the setting input means, and And a time display means for displaying the time according to the operation of the operation time input means and displaying the operation progress time.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a driving course control method and a preferred embodiment of the control device of the refrigerator according to the present invention. For convenience of description, the same reference numerals are used for constituent members that have the same function as those used in the prior art.

Figure 2 shows a form of the operation panel of the driving course control apparatus of the refrigerator according to the present invention, Figure 3 shows the main block configuration of the driving course control apparatus of the refrigerator according to the present invention, Figure 4 FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for controlling a driving course of a refrigerator according to the present invention. FIG. 5 is a memory map diagram showing a type of a reserved driving function and an operating time stored in an internal memory of a microcomputer of a control processing apparatus. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a mode in which an operation function is performed in a reserved operation order. It is apparent to those skilled in the art that the flowchart algorithm of the method shown in FIG. 4 can be programmed and stored in the internal memory of the microcomputer 40 of the control processing apparatus 200 of FIG.

In the method of controlling a driving course of the refrigerator according to the present invention, the operation of the refrigerator is pre-set in advance and the operation of the refrigerator proceeds in a predetermined order, as shown in FIG. The first step (S100) of sequentially setting the desired operation function among the first step (S100) and the second step (S200) of sequentially executing the operation function of the refrigerator in the order set in the first step (S100). The first step (S100) is a step of determining whether there is a key operation input for operation of the refrigerator (S10), and a step of determining whether the key operation input is a key operation input for reserved operation of the refrigerator (S20) and In step S20, after the key operation input for the reserved operation is input, it is determined whether there is an operation mode key operation input for the desired operation function (S30), and after the step S30, the operation time corresponding to the reserved operation mode is set. It includes the step (S40, 50, 60).

In addition, the method of the present invention further includes a step (S21) of determining whether the key operation for the reserved operation has been continuously performed for a predetermined time or more, for example, for 5 seconds or more in step S20, and in step S10, If there is no key operation for driving, the method further includes the step S12 of determining whether there has been no key operation for a predetermined time or more, for example, for 10 seconds or more.

In addition, the method of the present invention, if the key operation is 5 seconds or more in step S21, canceling and deleting all previously reserved operation mode (S22), and if the key operation is less than 5 seconds in step S21, S20 (S23..S26) and S30 storing the reserved operation mode and the operation time set before the operation in the internal memory of the microcomputer 40 of the control processing apparatus 200 (FIG. 3) as shown in FIG. If there is a desired operation mode key operation input at the step, storing the operation mode in the internal memory of the microcomputer 40 and displaying the operation mode through the display devices as shown in FIG. In step S40, if the time setting for the reservation operation is not set, the step of displaying an alarm (S42).

Furthermore, if there is no reserved operation mode stored in the internal memory of the microcomputer 40 in step S12, the operation mode of the conventional refrigerator is executed (S210), and the reserved operation mode stored in the internal memory as shown in FIG. If there is, it comprises the step (S220) of sequentially performing these reserved driving modes.

The control apparatus of the present invention, which implements the driving course control method of the present invention refrigerator configured as described above, receives various key inputs shown in FIG. Control processing device for driving the load such as compressor 30, fan 35, etc. according to the conditions, and displaying the operation state of the refrigerator through various display devices such as the freezer compartment temperature display unit 21 and the power refrigeration display unit 24. A reserved operation setting key 50 for providing a key input for the reserved operation to the control processing apparatus 200, and a reserved operation mode stored in the internal memory of the microcomputer 40 of the control processing apparatus 200. It comprises a driving time setting key 60 to provide a key input for the driving time of, and a time display unit 70 for displaying this when the driving time or the driving time via the driving time setting key 60. The control processing device 200 preferably includes a buffer unit 55 and a drive unit 33, 75 for smoothly driving the refrigerator driving device and smoothly receiving a key operation input of the refrigerator. The reservation operation setting key 50 and the operation time setting key 60 are preferably push button switches, and the operation time setting key 60 causes the microcomputer 40 to set one hour through one operation. do.

The driving course control method of the present invention refrigerator configured as described above and the operation of the control device will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 6.

In the present invention, a time display unit 70 in accordance with the operation time setting key 60, the reserved operation setting key 50 and the operation time setting key 60 is added to the front operation panel 100 of the refrigerator. In FIG. 3, although the time display part 70 displays 0 to 9, it can display more than 24, for example.

In the apparatus of the present invention, the keys 60 and 70 and the display unit 70 as described above have been added, but the setting of the present function of the refrigerator can be performed in the same manner as before. However, when the next function of the current function is selected, for example, when the power refrigeration mode is to be performed for two hours after the current power refrigeration mode, the reserved operation setting key 50 can be displayed using the NEXT KEY. Press (S10, 20), and selects the power refrigeration button 3 (hereinafter, the button name and key names are used in the same sense) in the operation panel 100 (S30). Then, when the operation time setting key 60 is pressed twice to set the reservation operation time (for example, 2 hours) (S40, 50), the time display unit 70 displays the reservation operation time of 2 (S60). In the internal memory of the microcomputer 40 of the control processing apparatus 200, the reserved driving mode and the reserved driving time are stored as shown in FIG.

If, as described above, as the next operation function of the reserved power refrigeration mode as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, 1 hour in the freezer strong mode, 3 hours in the freezer weak mode, 5 hours in the freezer medium mode and the cold room strong mode If you want to reserve the refrigerator for a while, as described above, select the above operation mode on the operation panel 100, input the reservation operation time accordingly, and then press the reservation operation setting key 60, and then the reservation operation mode If the above process is repeated, each of the reserved driving modes and the reserved driving time is stored in the internal memory of the microcomputer 40 as shown in FIG. 5. Here, when the reserved operation setting key 50 is pressed and there is no operation input of an additional key within 10 seconds (S12), the microcomputer 40 determines that there is no further setting of the reserved operation mode, and is shown in FIG. As described above, the preset driving function is sequentially set by the set time from the operation function before the reserved driving mode is set, and when the reserved driving function is terminated, the normal driving function is performed (S14) (S220 and S210). . The microcomputer 40 of the control processing apparatus 200 displays the current operation function status on the display of the operation panel 100 provided on the front of the refrigerator, and similarly displays the operation function status when the reserved operation function is performed. The display unit 100 displays the corresponding operation time on the time display unit 70.

If you want to cancel all the reserved operation mode as described above, press the reservation operation setting key 50 for 5 seconds or more (S20, 21). When the reserved operation setting key 50 is pressed for 5 seconds or more, all reserved operation modes are deleted from the internal memory of the microcomputer 40 (S22).

4, when there is a predetermined key operation input in step S10 and the operation input of the reserved operation setting key 50 is less than 5 seconds (S21), the corresponding operation mode input in the previous step S30 is stored in the microcomputer. The memory storage location (n = 1, 3, 5, 7; Fig. 5) of the computer 40 is set, and the corresponding operation mode is stored therein, and subsequently the microcomputer in which the reserved operation time of the corresponding operation mode is stored. The memory storage locations (n = 2,4,6,8) of the computer 40 are set and the operation time is stored therein (S23..S26).

In addition, when there is a key input of the operation mode to be reserved operation in step S30, the reserved operation mode is temporarily stored in the internal memory of the microcomputer 40 (S32), and the operation mode temporarily stored in the internal memory successively is Step S34 displayed on the display unit of the operation panel 100 is performed.

Further, when there is no operation input of the operation time setting key 60 in step S40, the alarm display step (S42) to inform the display unit of the operation panel 100 that the method of implementing the method is wrong is performed.

Thus, according to the present invention, the operation mode of the refrigerator may be preset in advance, and the operation function of the refrigerator may be performed in the order of reservation.

As described above, the driving course control method and the control apparatus of the refrigerator according to the present invention includes a reservation operation setting key, an operation time setting key, and a time display unit to pre-set the operation of the refrigerator in advance, Allowing the operation to proceed provides an advantage of improving the convenience of the refrigerator. For example, according to the present invention, power refrigeration is performed from 5 am to 7 pm, and power refrigeration is performed from 5 pm to 8 pm so that the food stored in the refrigerator can be optimally used.

On the other hand, the driving course control method and the control apparatus of the refrigerator of the present invention as described above is not limited to the above embodiment can be carried out by applying a number of manufacturing modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.

Claims (8)

In the driving course control method of the refrigerator performing a plurality of different operation functions, A first step of sequentially setting a desired driving function among the plurality of different driving functions, and a second step of sequentially executing the driving functions of the refrigerator in the order set in the first step. Driving course control method of the refrigerator characterized in that. The method of claim 1, wherein the first step comprises: a step of determining whether a predetermined key operation input for operating the refrigerator is present; Determining whether the key operation input is a key operation input for reserved operation of the refrigerator; C) determining whether there is a driving mode key operation input for a desired driving function after the key operation input for the reserved driving is present; And setting a reserved driving time corresponding to the reserved driving mode after step c. 3. The method of claim 2, further comprising the step of determining whether the key operation for the reserved operation has been performed for a predetermined time or more in step c, and canceling all previously reserved operation if the key operation has been performed for a predetermined time or more. A driving course control method for a refrigerator. The method of claim 3, wherein the predetermined time is 5 seconds. The method of controlling a driving course of the refrigerator according to claim 2, wherein the step (a) of performing the previously reserved driving functions is sequentially performed when the key operation for operating the refrigerator is absent for a predetermined time. The method of claim 5, wherein the predetermined time is 10 seconds. A control panel means for controlling a refrigerator having a predetermined microcomputer, an operation panel portion for inputting a user's options to the control processing means, and an operation panel portion having a display portion for displaying a control state by the control processing means; In the driving course control apparatus of the refrigerator to perform a number of different operation functions, The operation panel unit, And a reservation setting means for allowing a user to reserve a desired driving function among the plurality of different driving functions so that the reserved driving function is sequentially operated. The method of claim 7, wherein the reservation setting means, Setting input means for reserving a predetermined operation function, operation time input means for setting an operation time of the corresponding operation function reserved by the setting input means, and time according to the operation of the operation time input means And a time display means for displaying the driving progress time.